Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 122 Hermione's Wand
Jon looked at Dumbledore suspiciously.
"Are you really going to relax, instead of finding an excuse to trick me in and then do something else?"
Dumbledore laughed silently and said with a blink of his eyes.
"A friend invited me to France, just to catch up and chat about some things. Besides, when did you get this impression of me?"
In my previous life...
Of course, this was just what John was thinking, and he certainly couldn't say it out loud. But to be honest, Dumbledore had never lied to him about anything, and he had explained all the dangers of sneaking into the castle clearly before he went, and he had also asked for John's opinion.
Without much hesitation, Jon readily agreed.
He had been in a state of tension and had poor sleep quality during his time in Hogwarts Castle. It was indeed time for him to relax and have some rest.
Staying in the carriage was certainly relaxing, but being able to go out for a walk with Dumbledore was even better.
After all, Jon doesn't have to worry about safety issues when he follows him, and he might even learn some magical knowledge that can be helpful to him.
After confirming the travel time, Jon left the principal's office.
On his way back to the dormitory, he happened to run into Hermione who had just come out of the library.
At this time, Hermione was no longer dressed like a wild girl in the castle. It was said that because of her excellent performance in the tutoring class, Lily gave her a bottle of hair smoothing potion, which allowed her to tidy up her hair and let it flow smoothly behind her.
She was no longer wearing the tattered gray robe, but had changed into the student uniform on the carriage. Although her face was still pale from long-term malnutrition and her body was still very thin, she was obviously in much better shape than before.
"Good morning, Jon."
It was not until she walked in front of Jon that she shifted her attention from the book in her hands , looked up, smiled and greeted Jon.
Because the situation was different in the castle, Jon rarely observed Hermione's personality even if he had any contact with her.
After getting on the carriage, he discovered that Hermione, who had experienced two years of dark slavery, was much more restrained than the somewhat flamboyant Miss Know-It-All in the original book.
Every time she spoke, she would subconsciously observe the other person's expression. Even after arriving in the carriage, this habit had not changed.
It's like a little beaver that always carefully sticks its head out of the water to observe the surrounding situation, full of fear and vigilance towards this world that has already seen through the darkness.
"Good morning." Jon also greeted, "You went to the library so early? Didn't you have breakfast?"
"I took it from the restaurant and ate it on the way." She seemed very relaxed when chatting with Jon. "The butter bread for breakfast was great."
"Today is the fifth graders' turn to go to the kitchen. The butter bread should be baked by Ron's two brothers. Well... to be honest, I think as long as they don't secretly hide anything weird in the bread, I can accept it."
They chatted side by side and walked towards the dormitory together. Jon was a little curious about the wand that Hermione had just got a few days ago.
"Can you lend it to me?"
Hermione graciously handed the wand into his hand.
This wand is very new, completely different from the old wands that Jon and Neville and Ron got when they first entered school.
"What kind of combination is it?"
"Vine wood, with a jackalope antler as the core," Hermione recalled.
The wood used for magic wands is basically the same all over the world, and problems can be easily spotted by looking at the core of the wand.
The new wands that Hermione and the others got were definitely not made by Ollivander. After one generation of this wand-making family determined that unicorn hair, dragon nerves and phoenix feathers were the three most suitable materials for wand cores, they basically never used other magical animals' body parts as wand cores again.
These wands were obviously obtained by Dumbledore through special channels, and they are most likely not the works of wand makers in .
Judging from the situation this year, if there is no new source of wands, with so many students pouring in all at once, and the wizards who escaped from Azkaban also need wands to use, the stock in Dumbledore's office will definitely not be enough.
But now it seems that he has a solution.
After returning the wand to Hermione, they separated in front of Jon's dormitory door. Back in the dormitory, Jon began to pack his things. Dumbledore had agreed to meet him tomorrow.
Ron and the others envied Jon for being able to go out with Dumbledore.
After staying in the carriage all day, they actually wanted to go somewhere else, but the actual conditions were obviously not enough to do so.
Early the next morning, Dumbledore was already waiting for him in the hallway. Jon was carrying a small suitcase, and the two got off the carriage together.
"So, are we just going to Apparate straight over there, Professor?"
Dumbledore used his Transfiguration spell to transform himself and John, and they still looked like the brother wizards they had when they went to Diagon Alley together last year.
After Hagrid stopped the car and dropped them off, he waved the whip in his hand to signal them, then drove away again.
Dumbledore put a top hat on his head and said with a smile.
"Of course not. Who travels directly to the destination? The scenery along the way is the most precious treasure for us."
He watched the Hogwarts carriage go away, and walked with Jon in the opposite direction for about three or four kilometers, arriving at a corner of a secluded village. Then he held the wand in his hand, pointed it horizontally at the empty road.
The silence lasted for about two or three seconds, and soon there was a deafening "bang" sound, and a three-story, bright purple bus suddenly passed through countless low houses and drove towards their location at a high speed, and finally stopped in front of them with an emergency brake.
With a bang, the car door opened and a weak voice came from inside.
"Welcome aboard the Knight Bus, an emergency transport service for witches and wizards in distress. Just hold out your wand and step aboard, and we'll take you anywhere you want to go. My name is Ern Plan, and I'll be your driver and part-time conductor today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow... In fact, I've already suggested to the Ministry of Magic that they assign me a separate conductor, just like they did eight years ago, even if it's a Mudblood."
